* enthusiasm gap
* for reasons obvious to everyone but me
* unfortunate third time you feel the need to explain yourself
* just climbed out of 2010 this morning
* deactivated account, still showing up daily
* mad at everyone
* enthusiasm gap
* for reasons obvious to everyone but me
* unfortunate third time you feel the need to explain yourself
* just climbed out of 2010 this morning
* deactivated account, still showing up daily
* mad at everyone
What makes someone an asshole? Everyone knows one, and some of us are one, but it seems a purely subjective matter.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines asshole as “someone or something foolish or contemptible”. One of the more popular entries in the Urban Dictionary describes asshole as “someone being arrogant, rude, obnoxious, or just a total dickhead”. Denis Leary once sang that an asshole is someone who drives slow in the fast lane, enjoys Cuban cigars, and parks in handicapped spaces while “handicapped people make handicapped faces.”
Last week at TNB, Joel Fishman called out the New York Times Book Review.Its methodology of selecting which books to bless (or damn) with a review, he suggested, has become whimsical to the point of irrelevance.
One of the unfortunate casualties of TNB 3.0 is that old comments, while still readable, will not “count.”
For the sake of posterity, then, here are the ten most-commented pieces in the history of The Nervous Breakdown:
(Note: it may be that the “Bond Girl” photo essay will crack the Top Ten by 11/15, and rightly so)
Duke is the Wayne Gretzky of TNB comments. If you don’t follow hockey, here is a list of All-Time NHL points leaders by season:
1 | Wayne Gretzky | C | 1985-1986 | 80 | 52 | 163 | 215 | 71 | 46 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 350 | |||
2 | Wayne Gretzky | C | 1981-1982 | 80 | 92 | 120 | 212 | 81 | 26 | 18 | 6 | 12 | 369 | |||
3 | Wayne Gretzky | C | 1984-1985 | 80 | 73 | 135 | 208 | 98 | 52 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 358 | |||
4 | Wayne Gretzky | C | 1983-1984 | 74 | 87 | 118 | 205 | 76 | 39 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 324 | |||
5 | Mario Lemieux | C | 1988-1989 | 76 | 85 | 114 | 199 | 41 | 100 | 31 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 313 | |
6 | Wayne Gretzky | C | 1982-1983 | 80 | 71 | 125 | 196 | 60 | 59 | 18 | 6 | 9 | 348 | |||
7 | Wayne Gretzky | C | 1986-1987 | 79 | 62 | 121 | 183 | 70 | 28 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 288 | |||
8 | Mario Lemieux | C | 1987-1988 | 77 | 70 | 98 | 168 | 23 | 92 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 382 | |
9 | Wayne Gretzky | C | 1988-1989 | 78 | 54 | 114 | 168 | 15 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 303 | |
10 | Wayne Gretzky | C | 1980-1981 | 80 | 55 | 109 | 164 | 41 | 28 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 261 |
Belardes is Mario Lemieux, Duke is Wayne Gretzky, and Brad is…Wayne Fencer, of course.
That 416 stands like DiMaggio’s 56. Actually, it looks like one of those batting averages from the Rogers Hornsby era. It may never be topped.
But then, records were made to be broken. Especially Foreigner 4. God I hate that album.